United States Invaded

by Ira Tabankin

  Ted, the Vice President, asks, “Rash, I know you’ll do very well, my concern is as you’ve labeled them the low informational voters, are any even going to be listening to you? Wouldn’t their minds already are made up against us simply because we’re not progressives?”

  “Mr. Vice President, that’s why we’re going to be flooding the web. The NSA and the FBI have hundreds of hackers who act as various forum members. We have software scanning the web for anti-government, anti-President Brownstone remarks. As soon as anyone makes a post, our people will respond with positive comments.”

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  President Puten is meeting with his key advisors in the executive conference room. “Andredov, as Minister of Finance, where do we stand with respect to Reid’s announcement?”

  “Mr. President, as soon as President Reid makes his accusation against President Brownstone, we’ll make an announcement we’re freezing all of the American assets in Europe. We’ve already placed short orders with our agents on Wall Street. Before Reid completes his remarks, we’ll have dumped all of our remaining dollars and shares in any American companies. We’re also going to announce our oil and natural gas deal with Premier Xing.”

  “General Voldodin?”

  “Mr. President, our strategic forces will go on Red Banner 2 alert 5 minutes before Reid begins his remarks. Our navy has attack submarines 2 miles outside Norfolk, Pearl Harbor and San Diego. If the USA Navy tries to surge their fleet, we’ll order them to stop, if they refuse we’ll sink one of their ships that will block the channel. Their fleet will be bottled up unable to respond. Once their fleet is bottled up in their ports, we’ll have control of the world’s oceans.”

  President Puten smiles saying, “This is our time to take down Brownstone. The entire world will turn on the USA; they will demand Brownstone’s head. Of course, we, the peace loving people of the Russian Federation, will help bring him to justice. The world will see Russia as the ‘good guys.' Since he will certainly be found guilty, in fact, President Reid, and I have spread out enough gold to ensure he will be found guilty no matter what is said inside the courtroom. The Russian Federation will provide military support to Reid’s LSA to bring the murderer to face his sentence. We’ll have control of the world except for China, which we’ll get soon enough. The world’s financial markets are going to blackball the American dollar, which will close America’s markets to China, causing China’s economy to implode, when it does; we’ll be ready to step in. We’ll help them by taking them over.

  “Mr. President, won’t President Brownstone respond in kind to each of our actions?”

  “General, yes he will, however, he’ll be responding to us versus being able to be proactive to the problems. Just think of the confusion the average American is going to feel when their President is found guilty of murder. At the same time, they will wake up to learn their dollar is worthless. They’ll turn on Brownstone very quickly. They’ll turn on his entire administration. Many will feel sorry for the LSA; they may even request to join the LSA making our task even easier. I suggest we watch Reid’s performance together. I’ll have a few bottles of our best vodka chilled for our celebration.”

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  Sitting across from me, my best friend and police lieutenant Ron asks, “Brad, are you planning on watching President Reid’s speech tonight?”

  “Do I have a choice? Anything he says is carried as real news by the LSA loving press. Even after the country’s break up the press is still on his side. I thought they would have been able to look at the results of both of the countries. I thought they would see whose made progress and who’s going backwards. The press is still the liberal propaganda department it’s been for fifty years. The truth means nothing to them if it debunks what they KNOW to be the truth. They will lie even if the truth helps them. God, I hate all of the so-called talking head experts on TV. None of them can find their own ass.”

  “At least Wolf News is back on the air, they got their broadcast license back. They must be driving the LSA crazy.”

  “Ron, are you asking to join Kathy and I this evening to watch the announcement?”

  “Sure took you long enough to catch on, I assume you’ll be serving snacks and beer?”

  “Of course Officer, we wouldn’t want to upset our local police lieutenant would we?”

  “Make sure the beer is cold, last night we ran out and had to drink the last can warm, this isn’t the United Kingdom. I don’t like warm beer. Do it again, and I’ll have to arrest you for crimes against mankind for serving warm beer.”

  I threw a handful of nuts at him.

  “That’s assaulting a police officer.”

  We both laugh agreeing to see each other later.

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  In the People’s great hall, the People’s Republic of China ministers are meeting with the Premier, who is also the Chairman of the Communist Party. “Premier Xing what do you propose we do about President Reid’s address?”

  “Minister, nothing, nothing at all, we’re going to sit on the sidelines and watch the events unfold. We will publicly condemn President Brownstone and privately support him. We’ll continue trading as if nothing has happened. I don’t want to impact our economy. I don’t believe President Brownstone had anything to do with President Obsma’s death. I’ve held many discussions with President Brownstone; I’ve learned he’s not a normal American politician.”

  The commanding general of the People’s military, General Tao asks, “Mr. Premier, should we place our forces on a higher state of alert?”

  “General Tao I believe the Russians are pulling Reid’s strings backstage. I believe Puten is controlling these events. I’m sure President Puten is assisting President Reid in taking the USA down so that Reid can take control of all of America, putting Puten in defacto control. We’re not going to be part of their plan. I don’t trust the Russians. When President Reid begins his speech you may place our forces on the second highest level, ’Great Wall.' What forces do we have near the American coasts?” Premier

  “Mr. Premier, we have two type 093 nuclear attack submarines ten kilometers off of the US Navy San Diego base and one type 093 six kilometers off their base in Norfolk Virginia.”

  “General Tao have they reported anything out of the ordinary? “

  “Mr. Premier, please allow me to have communications forward their last few reports to us.”

  “General Tao, I want them to break radio silence to report anything unusual.”

  “Premier Xing, are you expecting them to spot something unusual? Their last report said they are holding track on Russian attack submarines moving to block the Americans from leaving their naval bases. Sir, we’ve received numerous coded signals between the American ships and their command base. We think the Americans are going to flush their fleet. They might be able to get their warships out of port before the Russian attack boats are in position.

  “Premier Xing, Sir, what are your orders? Should we move to block the American ships or block the Russian boats?”

  “For now, just observe, if anyone takes action against our boats, they can defend themselves.”

  Chapter 2

  In the new LSA Gray House, (white is considered racist, President Obsma ordered the 30,000 square foot house in Los Angeles painted gray), at 6:00 PM PST, President of the LSA, Harold Reid, wearing a black arm band, walks to the podium to address the world. He’s practiced his speech many times; he’s made some minor changes each time he practiced it. He takes a sip of water, looks into the camera and begins, “My fellow citizens of the LSA, I address my remarks tonight to you and all of the peace-loving people of the world. This is one address I wish I didn’t have to give, to even consider the recent events pains me as I’m sure it does every peace loving person. I’m sure by now everyone knows the LSA’s founder and our first President, President Obsma received very serious head injuries during the recent blackout in New York City. I’m sorry to have to inform the world that President Obsma has passed away.
His injuries were too severe for the best-medical minds to overcome. The poor man didn’t even regain consciousness. He peacefully drifted off in his sleep. I’d like to pause for a minute of silence for the passing of our founder.”

  The studio is silent; Reid hangs his head down. He slowly lifts his head towards the camera that zooms into his eyes that show tear. Of course, they missed the small bottle of eye spray President Reid hid on the podium. When he lowered his head and placed his hands over his eyes, he misted his eyes so when he lifted his head he appeared he was crying over the loss of their founder.

  “The cause of our founder’s injuries is none other than the United States of America, and in particular, President Brownstone himself. Shocked? I know I was when I was handed the data clearly showing President Brownstone personally being responsible for the death of our beloved President Obsma. President Brownstone has President Obsma’s blood on his hands. I’m telling you; the President of the USA has blood dripping off of his hands! President Brownstone’s personally appointed cabinet officer encouraged the stealing of the electrical power from the peace loving and hard working people in New York City. By cutting the electrical power off at the stroke of Midnight, President Brownstone is personally responsible for the riots. He’s personally responsible for billions of dollars of damage. He’s responsible for the loss of personal property and of course he’s responsible for the death of our beloved founding President Obsma. Can you imagine what would have happened if the British had arranged to kill George Washington on the eve of July 4th, 1776 out of spite for wanting a better life for his family? President Obsma only wanted to improve the lives of our people and their children and our children’s children. President Obsma took the long view; he planned for generations.

  “President Brownstone did this to us. He murdered our founder and in doing so; he damaged the entire world. He might as well have pulled the trigger and shot our loved President Obsma in the head from point blank range. It would have been more merciful if President Brownstone had done that; instead he made hundreds of thousands suffer, thousands died and of course President Obsma suffered head injuries he never recovered from. President Brownstone caused the deaths of hundreds of our children, the monitor behind me is going to show images from the city, hungry and ill people eating snow since that’s all they had. Peaceful people who only wanted to celebrate New Year’s Eve in New York City. A tradition the nation has celebrated for over one hundred years. Look at the pictures of the children who froze to death. Look at the line of small bodies, these are our dead children. Dead children President Brownstone KILLED! His hands, his arms are covered in the blood of our innocents. The dead aren’t just LSA citizens; he killed citizens from over twenty different countries. President Brownstone is a mass murderer.

  “It took us more than a week to restore electrical power that delayed the search teams looking for the President. By the time we found our founder his brain damage was so great, that no matter the amount of services our national healthcare system provided for our beloved founder, we couldn’t save him. President Brownstone’s cutting the electrical power was an act of war committed against the people of the LSA and an act of war against the world. This is the first time in history a leader of a country, and might I add, a leader who wasn’t elected by the people he rules, has directly committed murder against another of the world’s leaders. Why did President Brownstone order the power in New York City turned off? He did it because he’s a racist. He couldn’t accept President Obsma as President when our loved founder was the duly elected President of the United States.

  “President Brownstone is a military man from a family that can trace their roots back to the war against the Native Americans. The President’s family fought for the South in the American civil war; his family fought to keep blacks enslaved. The President’s family fought in the Pacific in World War 2; they fought against the Asian race. The President himself fought in Gulf war 1 and 2. where he personally fought against Muslims. The history of President Brownstone’s family is clear, his entire family has been fighting against racial and religious freedom. His entire family history is filled with racism. President Brownstone followed his family’s racist roots. He couldn’t accept President Obsma as a world leader no matter what country he was the leader of.

  “No, President Brownstone couldn’t accept our leader. He arranged to have him killed while in the middle of a blackout and blizzard. He condemned millions to suffer; he condemned thousands to death all to kill his political enemy purely because of President Obsma’s skin color. He murdered our founder because his skin color was different from President Brownstone’s. I ask the world, is this the man who should be in charge of the world’s largest and most deadly military?”

  President Reid pauses to let his words sink in, he takes a sip of water, he hears in his right ear, “Excellent, keep it going, the numbers show you’re convincing people. Your speech is the number one topic being tweeted; you’re breaking every record.”

  Reid smiles to himself.

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  President Brownstone turns to address his press secretary, “I see his changed his speech a little, he’s really pouring gasoline on a roaring fire. I wonder what else he’s going to accuse me of. If he keeps going, he’ll claim I was responsible for crucifying Jesus. He’s starting up again.”

  “I’m calling on President Brownstone to turn himself into the World Court to face justice for the crime of murder. I’m calling on all of the peace-loving people of the world to boycott the United States of America until they bring the murderer, President Brownstone, to justice at the World Court. The USA may decide to put President Brownstone on trial in one of their own courts, I say this isn’t acceptable. Who can even understand most of the USA’s laws, imagine laws that are thousands of pages long. I say he has to answer for his crime to the world. He murdered citizens of the world; he should answer to the world for his crimes. He has to be tried in front of a world jury at the World Court.”

  “I’m calling on the international banking system to stop trading with and stop using the USA dollar until President Brownstone is brought to justice. I’m asking the world’s strongest military powers to assist us since we; the peace loving people of the LSA don’t have a military. We never planned on fighting anyone, we would never invade anyone, and as such we never thought we would need a military, our police and homeland security agents are enough to protect our citizens. I’m asking the LSA’s good friend, President Puten for military aid and protection from the mass murderer in the White House.”

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  “Steve, freeze their assets, freeze everything that once belonged to the governments Puten has taken over. John, put us at Defcon 3, I repeat; defense condition Round House now exists. Tell Admiral Zander to flush everything he can, tell General Alexander of the Air Force to flush all of our bombers, tell him to return to flying 25% of our strategic bombers to their fail-safe points. I want fighters flying CAP (combat air patrol) over all of our cities and up to 100 miles offshore. Any commercial flight that hasn’t filed and has an approved flight plan is to be turned back.”

  The cabinet Secretaries all knew these orders were coming; everything was already in place when the red phone in the Situation Room rings. Everyone in the meeting knew the significance of the red telephone. It was a direct connection between the President and the commanding general of NORAD. Every head turns to look at the ringing phone, with beads of perspiration on their foreheads. President Brownstone is surprised by its ringing; it usually only rings if NORAD has a warning for the President. The other end of the red telephone is held by the CICNORAD (Commander In Chief, North American Air Defense) meaning America is under attack, or there’s some other military crisis. He picks up the handset, “President Brownstone.”

  “Mr. President, Admiral Zander. Sir, our sensors have located Russian nuclear attack submarines lying in wait off of Norfolk and Pear Harbor. Our birds have seen the Russians increasing their defense condition to Red Bann
er 3.”

  “Admiral, how far off our coast are they?”

  “Sir, most are five miles off shore, one is only one mile away from the main channel from Norfolk.”

  “Admiral, sit on each submarine, if the one within our two mile limit doesn’t surface, you have permission to sink her. They moved into position to block our fleet when President Reid was giving his remarks. Thanks to Rash’s warning, we were able to flush out fleet before they got into position.”

  “Sir, I’m repeating, if the submarine within our two mile limit doesn’t surface, we are weapons free to sink her.”

  “Admiral, you are correct, please keep us posted.”

  “Yes sir.”

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  President Reid is drowned out by a standing ovation. He raises his hands to ask the people attending his speech to sit so he can continue.

  “The LSA is one of a small number of modern countries to be formed without a military; we swore we would never embrace weapons of mass destruction. President Obsma knew how damaging weapons of mass destruction are. When he was America’s President, he announced the destruction of America’s nuclear arsenal, what did President Brownstone do? He issued an executive order overturning President Obsma’s order. He decided to not only keep America’s weapons of mass destruction, but he issued secret contracts to develop new and more deadly weapons. The only reason anyone would spend money they don’t have to develop a new generation of these horrible weapons is they planned on using them! Yes, I accuse President Brownstone of preparing for world domination through the use of nuclear weapons.”